The Dalliance House, contemporary and old.
22/12/2013.
[Athens] Greece.
metalocus, JOSÉ JUAN BARBA.
metalocus, JOSÉ JUAN BARBA.
The remodelation project on Dalliance House if there is one thing that defines it is the passage of time. Although located in the same place for over 120 years, everything around it has evolved and changed. The house has also undergone major transformations and changes by its inhabitants. Instead of deleting these scars, the creative team paid attention on conservation, in an attempt to remember and relive all life forms and functions that existed within its walls.
Three designers / architects Athenians thought that revive its past, it would be a good idea. Panagiotis Fountas (NineDesign), Konstantina Panagiotou (INK Architecture) and Marilena Spanoudaki-Bakopoulou were drawn to the beauty of a building in the northern suburb of Kifisia. Located far away from the centre of Athens, wealthy Athenians fled their homes and flocked to the residential area, - even today you can find luxurious homes, to get away from the oppressive heat in the summer months in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The house that was built in the 1890s, is now known as Dalliance House, and went from being the home of a bourgeois family to become a commercial space for a time, where even housing a strawberry drying operation. At present, the reform has regained its housing function and has been added the use of restaurant, cafe and bar.
Konstantina Panagiotou was in charge of restoring the house's walls and murals using several aging techniques to integrate the new and the old in a single set. The result was joined by new murals like a tattooed geisha, a set of interventions characterized by green tones, which has joined the intervention in the staircase walls and ceiling leading up to the first floor where classic comic images are included. The ascent to the first floor is also accompanied by pieces of design as the Ingo Maurer lights, disembarking in a space in red and blue with furnitures brand Baxter, as the couch and a long table. Reform in the House Dalliance mix a baroque world between his past and his new resurgence.
The Dalliance House.- Kiriazi 19, 145 64 Kifissia, Attika, Greece. Tel: +30 210 623 0775.